BUDGET-DRIVEN staff and spending cuts have become a way of life in the Cobb school system in recent years — and we might as well get used to them, Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa warned members...
What we’re seeing is ‘the new normal’ The consensus has been that the economy will continue to recover slowly but steadily unless the president and/or Congress do something stupid, which is always a possibility, to mess it up.
But surv...
Georgia Voices: The IRS scandal — Root out the rottenness The power to tax is the power to destroy. That’s why the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service is so explosive — and so chilling to a healthy democracy.
A Treasury Department inspector gen...
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The Savannah Morning NewsThe Marietta Daily Journal
Obama making Bush look like a model of restraint To a person, probably, most of Barack Obama’s supporters believed — a belief the candidate encouraged — that, if elected, he would rein in “the worst excesses” of President George W. Bush’s nationa...
Obama’s IRS — Taking its cues from Cuba, Chavez’s Venezuela Rare among nations, the United States has a tax code that more or less works. It works because, by and large, taxpayers trust the competency of the agency that administers it, the Internal Revenue ...
Marietta wins a pair — City right to push cases Two protracted lawsuits targeting the city of Marietta finally played to a close in recent days, and the good news is that the city was the winner in both cases.
The first case was brought by Walee...
U.S. might escape a fifth annual jobs slump For the last four years, the job market has suffered a spring slowdown. But maybe that cycle ended this April with a really solid government report on employment.
The jobless rate fell slightly to ...
Local bomb threat a sad sign of times Call it a sad sign of the times: the fact that the Cobb and Cherokee county courthouses had to be briefly evacuated on Tuesday after a pair of bomb threats were called in.
And call it an unmistakab...
It’s time for Cobb school board, super to call off the dogs Cobb educators can breathe a little easier — but only a little — in the wake of last week’s decision by the Cobb County School District to dismiss a long string of charges against Awtrey Middle Sch...
Isakson talk had Cobb hopefuls ... Eyeing Capitol Hill U.S. SEN. JOHNNY ISAKSON wasn’t auditioning applicants for those wanting to join him next year on Capitol Hill at the Cobb Chamber’s “First Monday Breakfast” on Monday — it only seemed that way.
Scandal Time ... but will the media have any interest? If it weren’t so serious, it would be comical to watch the media try to spin the Obama administration scandals the president’s way. When White House spokesman Jay Carney continued Friday to cling d...
Good reason for right to be paranoid Sometimes people who are dismissed as being paranoid have good reason to be paranoid. Case in point: The admission last week by the chief of the Internal Revenue Service that the agency targeted co...
Around Town: Hankerson staying: But the question is, for how long? Earlier this month, Around Town learned that longtime Cobb County Manager David Hankerson was one of three finalist for the same position in Fulton County.
The other two finalist were Dwight Ferre...
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Lee B. Garrett, Joe Kirby and Otis Brumby IIIThe Marietta Daily Journal
Health reform may be unhealthy for pols The Affordable Care Act is getting closer to implementation, less than half a year. But there are a great many questions still lingering. U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), one of the moving forces be...
Benghazi: Will we let Obama get away with it? Even after explosive congressional testimony on the Benghazi scandal by heroic whistleblowers on Wednesday, the nation is left with a growing list of unanswered questions. Who in the Obama administ...
Obama blurs ‘red line’ in Syria Did they or didn’t they? No one seems to know with certainty. The White House said Thursday that U.S. intelligence officials believe that Syria likely has used chemical weapons on a small scale, in...
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